I may love the Evil Blogger Lady(both of 'em) and EBL may love Dana Loesch, but I do not love Dana Loesch. She and Hot Air's Mary Katherine Ham are what I think is wrong with the Right right now.
Loesch is one of those white affirmative-action conservatives, popular only for her looks and political orientation, not for ever uttering an original thought or attaining actual political accomplishments.
Listen to her answer, above, when The View asked her why she went from liberal to conservative. She became a mother. Great, that makes total sense. So what about being a mother caused you to switch?
"Blah, blah, blah, Big Government".
Really?
As a conservative, I just put my head in my hands, because I know that we can do better.
What happened to something like "I switched because I realized that was MY child - not the village's - and it was up to responsible adults, to create a really good village, for all children to live freely in"?
It may not be the best answer, but it's off the top of my head like her's was, and probably would've gotten an applause line if directed at Whoopie or Wah-Wah right.
Instead, we get conservative boilerplate - in a context that makes no sense to blacks - and which anyone can see through.
The cow thought it was masterful and said "This is going to make some heads explode... (and that is a good thing)"
...Politically, the shutdown is terrible for a party trying to rebrand itself. When Bobby Jindal said Republicans have to “stop being the party of stupid,” he swallowed a teaspoon of common sense. That’s been washed away by a river of stupid.”
2) Here's what I just wrote at Lem's a little while ago:
We think we've gotten in trouble with Glenn Reynolds, again, because,...well, just because we're us.
We've criticized his taste in music, the deer-in-the-headlights look he gets on camera, the sound of his voice (and his adorable wife's) and some of the issues he promotes (or disses) on Instapundit - pretty much everything but the fact he runs a great blog. But hey - sorry - we thought *commenting* was *the point* and, when you're dealing with a blog called The Macho Response, it should be pretty obvious that class (or ass kissing) ain't exactly gonna be high up on our list of priorities. (Nobody's demanding Ace of Spades chill his shit after all, or punishing him for doing what he does.)
Oh well, we know what the "Instalaunch" thing is about now - inclusion with the "other-other elites" of the Right - and, if we can't be in the club, then we can't be in the club:
Shit, we're black, poor, and attached to no one - so nothing new there.
The reason we're writing this is to let Reynolds know we never meant any harm or anything. We just want to improve the conservative output, so it can appeal to a wider - read: cooler, possibly darker - audience, as much as the next right-leaning blog. (We keep reading that that's what conservatism wants to do but, somehow, all these white folks never get around to accomplishing that goal, focusing instead on continually patting themselves on the back while saying "don't get cocky." Seems weird.) But, if saying "Dana Loesch isn't a good public speaker" or "Glenn Reynolds looks stupid on camera" or "Roger L. Simon ought to ditch that fucking hat" is going to make somebody cry, or act like a puss, then - whatever. We thought people were allowed to be people - y'know, different - but we see how it is now:
Our thinking that the Right was more mature (and/or somehow "harder" than the Left) was, clearly, mistaken.
It's apparently just more kindergarden shit, pretending it's Jr. High.
